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Philippe Ricord 1800 - 1889
- occupation:
- Physician
- Nationality:
- French
- born in:
- Baltimore, Baltimore Independent City, Maryland, United States
1820 - moved to Paris, 1862 - appointed physician and consulting surgeon to Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie; demonstrated the specificity of gonorrhoea and syphillis